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Pediatric emergency care · Oct 2017
Case ReportsMallet Finger in a Toddler: A Rare But Easily Missed Injury.
- Karen E Forward, Arjang Yazdani, and Rodrick Lim.
- From the *Department of Paediatrics, †Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and ‡Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine at Western University; and §Children's Health Research Institute, at the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Oct 1; 33 (10): e103-e104.
AbstractA mallet finger is a flexion deformity of a finger at the distal interphalangeal joint due to an injury of the extensor mechanism at the base of the distal phalanx. Most common in middle-aged men, injuries in the pediatric population are less common and rare in toddlers. We describe a case of missed mallet finger and its subsequent treatment in a female toddler.
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